Hello and welcome along to another edition of our live Hull City blog where we bring you all the Hull City news and rumours as they break.

The Tigers return to action tomorrow, as they travel to Fulham looking to make amends for a horror show in their last outing on Friday night.

A 5-0 defeat at Derby County underlined the work Leonid Slutsky and his team still have ahead of themselves after a busy transfer window saw 11 senior players arrive at the club.

Slutsky is expected to make changes again for the trip south and we'll take a look at what those could be, while previewing the game.

Follow our live blog below as we build up to the Fulham clash and bring you the very latest news.

16:38

That's all from us today

We’ll be back tomorrow with the latest news first thing in the morning as we build towards our live updates of Hull City at Fulham tomorrow night.

16:33

Sessegnon wary of threat from wounded Tigers

Fulham will be wary of facing a wounded animal as Slavisa Jokanovic’s men aim to secure a first home win of the season against Hull City tomorrow evening. An indifferent start to the season has so far delivered just one victory from six games for Fulham, but they will start as firm favourites when the Tigers arrive at Craven Cottage on the back of a 5-0 defeat to Derby County.

City were comfortably brushed aside by the Rams on Friday night as Seb Larsson’s penalty miss proved to be the catalyst for a heavy loss, but tonight’s opponents will be taking nothing for granted.

“Hull pose an attacking threat, they have a lot of attacking players in their team but again we must focus on ourselves and hopefully get the win,” said youngster Ryan Sessegnon, who scored in Fulham’s 1-1 draw with Cardiff on Saturday.

“Whenever you get beat like that you want to show that it was just a one off day so they will be coming for us.”

If City have endured their problems when losing three of their last four Championship games, Fulham have also been slow starters after reaching last season’s play-off semi-finals.

The Cottagers have claimed only two points from three home games ahead of City’s visit and Saturday’s draw with Cardiff again brought frustration when conceding a late equaliser. That followed a pattern that saw Fulham leak a late goal to drop two points on the opening day and leaves Jokanovic still searching for the momentum that made his side such a feared proposition in the second half of last season.

“We arrived in the last 10 minutes with an advantage, we didn’t score the second goal, we didn’t manage the situation well enough, and we paid an expensive price,” said Jokanovic.

“We showed some good spirit, fighting spirit, we fought hard. In the first 45 minutes we had possession of the ball but didn’t create so many chances. In the second half we moved the ball too and found the way to create the chances, but we weren’t clinical enough. We scored the goal but in the last minutes we didn’t manage the situation well enough, we made a few mistakes before they scored their goal.

“We showed some improvements, (but) it’s not enough. The road in front of us is long, and we can work to try and improve ourselves. We cannot be satisfied and we are disappointed, but immediately in front of us we are going to have another chance to win at home. I hope we are going to do it against Hull. Forty games are left in front of all the Championship teams.”

15:57

Big match preview time

15:33

Slutsky's been speaking ahead of Fulham clash

The City boss has spoken to Tiger TV about the match at Craven Cottage tomorrow evening.

City haven’t had long to wallow after their 5-0 loss at Derby County and now the focus is on getting back to winning ways tomorrow. So, has the midweek game come at a good time? Slutsky said:

Maybe it’s better because we don’t have a time to think more about the situation or maybe it will be bad because we don’t have time to change some things.

Hull City manager Leonid Slutsky Manager during the Championship match at the iPro Stadium, Derby

14:53

Surely Meyler has to start tomorrow?

12:51

Feeling positive

Right, let’s forget about the 5-0 loss and be optimistic heading to Fulham.

12:22

No reunion for Cairney

FULHAM midfielder Tom Cairney will be denied a reunion with his former club Hull City tomorrow night as he continues to be troubled by a knee injury. Cairney missed Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Cardiff City after suffering a setback that ruled him out of Scotland’s World Cup qualifiers earlier this month and Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic has again ruled out his star man for City’s visit to Craven Cottage. Sheyi Ojo, Fulham’s recent loan signing from Liverpool, is another who will be absent against the Tigers with an ankle problem but Rui Fonte and Neeskens Kebano could both return to bolster Jokanovic’s options. Cairney’s absence will, nevertheless, hurt Fulham as they chase a first home win of the season.

Fulham's Tom Cairney (Image: Getty)

The 26-year-old, who emerged up through City’s academy before making 80 first-team appearances, has been the Cottagers’ talisman of recent years and was instrumental in their 4-1 win over the Tigers in last season’s FA Cup. “We can recover some elements and some players but it’s impossible for some to recover in such a short period,” said Jokanovic. “Sheyi Ojo is out, Tom Cairney is out too and we have some people that didn’t start who are working with us. “Lucas Piazon will be out for a long time but we expect Neeskens Kebano may be available but we are going to see in the next few days.”

12:16

First win for the U23s

Hull City U23s won their first game of the season in the Professional Development League last night, beating Cardiff City 2-1 thanks to goals from Tom Powell and Tyler Hamilton.

The Tigers started on the front foot and Robbie McKenzie headed wide from a Brandon Fleming corner. City carried on dominating and took the lead through Powell in the 11th minute. Ben Hinchcliffe put in a low cross into the Cardiff area, the ball was initially intercepted but Powell was on hand to power a low shot past Cardiff keeper Oliver Byrne.

The Bluebirds rarely threatened Hull’s goal and only mustered only one shot on target in the first half. Jahvan Davidson-Miller had a shot but it was comfortably saved by Callum Burton.

City doubled their lead in the 35th minute thanks to Hamilton. Dan Batty’s free-kick wasn’t dealt with properly and Hamilton was there to pounce and unleashed a volley from close range past the helpless Byrne.

In the dying embers of the game, the Tigers nearly made it 3-1. Cardiff stopped as they expected a free kick to be given but the referee allowed play to carry on but Greg Olley’s effort from 40 yards went past the post.

The result means Jon Beale’s side are now 17th on four points and Cardiff are five places above them on six points.

Hull City U23's coach Jon Beale

10:41

Details of the new TV deal for the EFL

The EFL and Sky Sports have agreed a new five-year TV deal starting from 2019/20.

The new agreement, worth £600m, means Sky Sportss will continue to exclusively broadcast the EFL, Carabao Cup, Checkatrade Trophy and the Play-Offs live through until May 2024.

The new agreement will see 16 Championship games each season broadcast on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, with a maximum of 150 EFL games a season.

The biggest change is SKY will now broadcast on their interactive service and online any games which clubs choose to stream online themselves.

EFL clubs now have an opportunity to stream on their own iFollow or equivalent service any games not played on a Saturday and should they do so, Sky will also pick up that feed and broadcast the games on their interactive service, meaning their is a possibility on a midweek all Championship games could be available to watch.

There is a stumbling block to this for Hull City supporters however. City withdrew from the EFL’s FLi agreement, which was in place last season for clubs to stream games overseas, with the club stating costs involved and the fact they put up full match replays for free 24 hours after a game as the reason.

It’s unknown at this stage if City will enter into the agreement again now the new deal and a chance to broadcast their own games domestically is an option.

10:03

What's your team?

We’ve been asking supporters to pick their team to play at Fulham tomorrow evening.

Here’s the most popular team so far.

if you’ve not selected your team yet you can do it below and post it to social media if you want to share it.

09:18

This could be massive

Details have been announced this morning that football fans will be able to watch live coverage of any midweek Championship match from next season. It will no longer be a case of has your team been picked for TV, every midweek game will be shown under what looks like a game-changing five-year, £600 million deal between Sky TV and the English Football League.

We’ll have more on this shortly.

09:06

Slutsky and City need time

Of all the comments made by Leonid Slutsky during an apologetic press briefing that followed Hull City ’s abject defeat to Derby County on Friday night, one underlined the balancing act he faces ahead of tomorrow’s trip to Fulham.

“We must have patience but we don’t have the time,” said City’s head coach.

Patience. It’s an interesting one. How patience and time will you give the team and can the club afford to be patient?

Philip Buckingham gives his thoughts on why patience is needed at City.

Hull City manager Leonid Slutsky (Image: Focus )

09:04

Good morning

Hull City return to action tomorrow as they travel to Fulham looking to make amends for a horror show in their last outing on Friday night.

A 5-0 defeat at Derby County underlined the work Leonid Slutsky and his team still have ahead of themselves after a busy transfer window saw 11 senior players arrive at the club.

Slutsky is expected to make changes again for the trip south and we’ll take a look at what those could be, while previewing the game.